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This research aims to determine how syntactic complexity is manifested in texts written by first-year university students based on the level of depth in which some subordinate structures are embedded in others. The study is framed in the line of applied linguistics, specifically in the study of levels of subordination and in the line of didactics of writing in that it aims to collect information on the levels of embeddedness of subordinate clauses that first-year students manage to produce. admission to the University of Panama. All of this with the intention of proposing didactic actions that favor the development of syntax in middle school and university students. The sample used in this study corresponds to 15 texts randomly selected from the UPENHUEC-2016 corpus, corresponding to the faculties of Humanities, Nursing and Economics. The results reveal a high incidence of embeddings at the lowest levels (0, 1), which represents the handling of a reduced syntax with a lower degree of complexity.
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